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KEY. I)R. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “The Dangers of Pessimism. ”
Text : “I snM in my haste, AH men are
liars.’'—Psalm cxvl., 11.
Swindled, of betrayed, petulance persecuted and David, thus in
a paroxysm rage, in
sulted the human race. David himself falsi
fied when he said, '‘All men are liars.” He
apologizes and says he was unusually pro
voked, and that he was hasty when he hurled
suoh universal denunciation, “I said in ray
haste.” and so on. It was in him only a mo
mentary triumph of pessimism. There is
ever and anon, and never more than now, a
disposition abroad to distrust everybodj*,
and because some bank employes defraud
to distrust nil bank employes, and because
some police officers have taken bribes to be
lieve that all policemen take bribes, and be
cause divorce cases are in the court to be
lieve that most, if not all, marriage relations
are There uuhappy. who rapidly coming
are men seam
to adopt this creed: All men are liars,
scoundrels, thieves, libertines When anew
case of perfidy conns to the surface, these
people clap their hands in glee. It gives
piquancy to their breakfast if the morning
newspaper discloses a new exposure or a
new arrest. They grow fat on vermin.
They join the devils In hell in jubilation over
recreancy and pollution, If some them one
arrested is proved Innocent, it is to a
disappointment. They would rather believe
evil than good. They are vultures, pre
ferring carrion. They would like to be on
a committee to find something wrong. They
wish that as eyeglasses have been invented
to improve the sight, and ear trumpets have
been invented to help the hearing, a corre
sponding instrument might be iuvented for
the nose, to bring nearer a malodor.
Pessimism says of the church, hypocrites, “The ma
jority of the members temporal are be
although it is no advantage to a
member of the church, and therefore there
is no temptation to hypocrisy.” Pessimism
says that the influence of newspapers is only
bad, and that they are corrupting the mightiest world,
when the fact is that they are the
agency for the arrest of crime and the spread
of intelligence, and the printing press, secu
lar and religious, is setting the nations free.
The whole tendency of things is toward
cynicism, and the gospel of Smashup. We
excuse D ivid of the text for a paroxysm of
disgust, because he apologizes deplorable for it to all that the
centuries, but it is a fact
many have taken the attitude of perpetual
distrust and anathematization. There are,
we must a mit, deplorable minify facts, and we
would not hide or them. We are
not much encouraged to find that the great
work of official roform in New York City be
gins by a proposition to the liquor dealers
to break the law by keeping their saloons
open on Sunday from two in the afternoon
to eleven at night.
Never since America was discovered has
there been a worse insult to sobriety end de
cency and religion than that proposition.
That proposition is equal have to saying : “Let
law and order and religion a chance on
Sunday forenoons, but Sunday afternoons
open all t he gates to gin and alcohol and
Schiedam schnapps and sour mash and Jer
sey lightning, and and the variegated swill of
breweries drunkenness and crime. Con
secrate the first half of devil. the Sunday to God
and the last half to the Let the chil
dren on their way to Sunday-schools in New
York at 3 o’clock in the afternoon meet the
alcoholism that does more than all other
causes combined to rob children of their
fathers and mothers and strew the land with
helpless orphanage. Surely strong drink
can kill enough people and destroy enough
families and sufficiently crowd the alms
houses and penitentiaries txtra in six half days day of the
week without giving it an for
pauperism and assassination.
Although we are not very jubliant over a
municipal reform that opens the exercises
bv a doxology to rum, wo have full faith in
God and in the gospel which will yet sink
all iniquity as the Atlantic Ocean melts a
flake o; snow. What we want, and what I
believe we will have, is a great religious
awakening that will moralize and Christian
ize our great populations and make them
superior to temptations, whether unlawful
or legalized. So I see no cause for dis
heartenment. Pessimism is a sin, and those
who yield to it cnpDle themselves for the
war, on one side of which are all the forces
of darkness, led on by Apollyon, and on the
other side of which are all the forces
of Tlight, led on by the Omnipotent. I
risk the statement that the vast majority of
people are doing the best they can. N ne
hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand
of the officials of the municipal and the
United States governments are honest.
Out of a thousand bank presidents and
•cashiers, nine hundred and ninety-nine are
worthy the merchants, position they mechanics occupy. and Out of a
■thousand profes
sional men, nine hundred and ninety-nine
are doing their duty as they understand it.
Out of one thousand engineers and conduc
tors and switchmen, nino hundred and nine
ty-nine are true to their responsible posi
tions. It is seldom that people arrive at
positions of responsibility until they have
been tested over and over again. . If the
theory ’ of the pessimist have were accurate, pieces, so
ciety would Jong ago gone to
and civilization would huve been submerged
with barbarism, and the wheel of the cen
turies would nave turned back to the dark
ages. A wrong impression is made that be
cause two men falsify their bank accounts
those two wrongdoers are blazoned before
the world, while nothing is said in praise of
the Hundreds ol bant olerks who have stood
at their desks year in and year out until
their health Is well nigh gone, taking not a
pin’s worth of that which belongs to others
for themselves, though with skilful themsoivtes stroke of
pen they might have enriched
land built their country seats on the banks of
the Hudson or the Rhine.
It is a mean thing in human nature that
men and women are not praised for doing
well, but only excoriated when they do
the wrong. families By divine arrangement the most of
of the earth are 'at peace, airid.
the most of those united in. marriage have
ifor each olher affinity and affection. They
may have occasional differences, and .here
and there a season of pout, but the vast mn
|the jorlty of those in the conjugal relation chose
most appropriate companionship, and
jare .of happy quietude in that relation. You hear nothing
the and happiness of such
jpart. homes, though nothing but death will them
But one sound of marital discord
makes the ears of a continent, and perhaps
-of a hemisphere, alert.
The one letter that ought never to have
•been written printed in a newspaper makes
more talk than the millions of letters that
crowd the postoffices and weigh down the
mail carriers with expressions of honest'love.
Tolstoi, the great Russian author, is wrong
wheD he prints a book for the depreciation
-of marriage. If your observation has put
you in an attitude of deploration for the
marriage state, one or two things is true in
.regard to you. You have either been un
fortunate in your acquaintanceship, or 3 - ou
yourself are morally rotten. The world, not
tos ranid as we would like, but still with
long strides, is on the way to tho scenes of
beatitude and felicity winch the Bible de
plels. Tho mau who cannot see tills
is wrong, either in Ins heart or liver or
spleen. Look at the great U.ble picture
gallery, where Isaiah has sot up the pictures
of arboresconce, girdling the world wun
cedar and fir and pine and boxwood and the
lion b»d ey a child, and at. John s plot ares
of waters and trees, and white horse cavalry,
and tears wiped away, and trumpets blown
and htirps struck, and nations redeemed,
While there are 10,000 things I do not
like, I have not seen any dlscouragem. n
for the cause of God for twenty-live j oars.
The kingdom is coming. I ho earth is pre
paring to put on bridal array. We need to
be getting our anthems and grand marches
rend j'. In our hymnologywe shall have
more use for ‘ Antioch than for ‘ ^vind
ham,” for “Ariel,” than for ‘Naomi. Bet
“Hark, From the Tombs a Doleful Cry • be
submerged with “Joy to the World, the
Lord is Come!” Really, if I thought the
human race were as determined to be bad
aml getting worse, think as the pessimists hardly repre- worth
sent, I would It was
saving. If after hundreds of years of gos
pelization no improvement has been made,
let us give it up and go at something else
besides praying and preaohing. had enough ' faith
My opinion is that if we
in quick results and could go forth rightly
equipped with the gospel call the battle for
God and righteousness would end with this
nineteenth contun - , and the twent etb
century only live or six yeais off, would be
gin the millennium, and Christ would
reign, either in person on some throne set
up between the Alleghnnios and the Rockies
or in the institutions of meres - and grandeur
set up bs - His ransomed people. Discouraged
work will meet with defeat. Expectant and
buoyant work will gain the victors*. Start
out with the idea that all men are liars and
scoundrels, and that evers’bods - is as bad as
he can be, and that society, and the church,
and.the world are on tlie way to demolition,
and the only use s*ou will ever be to the
world will be to increase the value of
lots in a cemetery. We need a more
cheerful front in all our religious work
People have enough trouble already and
do not want to ship another car ro of trouble
in the shape of reiigiosit3 - . If religion has
been to >'ou a peace a defense, an inspira
tion mo° and “ a iov sav so Sav taVi! it bv word lltat of
by n by
mined with a divine satisfaction. If this
world is ever to be taken for God, it will not
be by / groans, " but by halleluiahs. If we
•
could , present the .. Christian , .. religion as it
really is, in its true attractiveness, all the
people would accept it, and accept it right
away. The cities, the nations would cry
out: “Give us that, give it to power! us in all Put its
holy magnetism and gracious
that salve on our wounds! Throw back the
shutters for that morning light. Knock off
these chains with that silver hammer! Give
us Christ—His pardon, His peace. His com
fort, His heaven ! Give us Christ in song,
Cnrisl in sermoD, Christ in book, Christ in
living examDle!”
As a system of didactics religion has never
gained one inch of progress. As a tech
nicality it befogs mere than it irradiates. As
a dogmatism it is an awful failure. But as a
fact, as a re-enforcement, as a transflgura
tion, it is the mightiest thing that ever
descended from the heavens or touched the
earth. Exemplify it in the life of a good
man cr a good woman, and no one can help
but like it. A city missionary visited a house
in London and found a sick and dying boy.
There was an orange lying on his bed, and
tho missionary said, “Where did 3-ou get
that orangeV” He said : “A man brought it
tome. He comes here often and reads the
Bible to me and pri^s with me and brings
mo nice things to eat." “What is liis
name? ’ said the city missionary. “I
forget his name,” said the sick boy,
“but he makes great speeches over in
that great building.” pointing to the
Parliament House of London. The mis
sionary asked, “Was his name Mr. Glad
hta“.■M-SJ: stone'- 1 ” “Oh ffid, ves " said the 'doTo. bov “that is
a man can see religion like that and not like
it? There is an old fashioned mother in a
farm house. Perhaps she is somewhere in
the seventies, perhaps sevent3 T -flve or sev
ent3 - -six. It is the early evening hour.
Through spectacles No. 8 she Is reading a
newspaper until toward bedtime, waen she
takes up a well-worn book, called the Bible,
I know from the illumination in her face
she is reading one of the thanksgiving
psalms, or in Revelation the story of the
twelve pearly gates. After awhile she closes
the book and folds her hands and thinks over
the past and seems whispering tho names of
her children, some of them on earth and
some of them in heaven. Now a smile is on
her face, and now a tear, and sometimes the
smile catches tho tear. The scenes of a long
life come back to her. One minute she
sees all the children smiling around her,
with their toys and sports and strange ques
tionings. Then she remembers several of
them down sick with infantile disorders.
Then she sees a short grave, but ovar it out
in marble, “Suffer them to come to Me.”
Then there is the wedding hour, and the
neighbors in, and tho promise of “I will,”
and tho departure trom the old homestead,
then a scene of hard times, and scant bread
and struggle. Then she thinks of a few
years with gush of sunshine and Sittings of
dark shadows and vicissitudes.
Then she kneels down slowly, for many
years have stiffened the joints,’ and the Ill
nesses of a lifetime have made her less sup
ple. Her prayer is a mixture of thanks for
sustaining grace during all those 3 - .ears, and
thanks for children good and Christian—
and kind, and a prayer for the wandering
boy, whom she hopes to see come home be
fore her departure. And then her trembling
lips speak of the land of reunion, where she
expdets to meet her loved ones already
translated, and after telling the Lori in very
simple language how much she loves Him,
and trusts Him, and hopes to see Him soon,
I hear her pronounoethe quiet “Amen,” and
she rises up—a little more difficult effort
than kneeling down. And then she puts her
head on the pillow for the night, and the
angels of safety and peace stand sen
tinel about that couoh in the farm
house, and her face ' and
ever
anon shows signs of dreams about
the heaven she read of before retiring. In
the morning the day s work has begun down
stairs, and seated at the table the remark is
self.” made, “Mother must have overslept her
And the grandchildren also notice
that grandmother is absent from her usual
place at the table. One of the grandchildren
goes to the foot of the stairs and cries,
“Grandmother!” But there ts no answer.
Fearing something fs the matter, they go Up
to see, and all seems right. The spectacles
and Bible on the stand, and the covers of
the bed are smooth, and the face is oalm ;
her white hair on the white pillow ease like
snow on snow already fallen. But her soul
is gone up to look upon the things that the
night before she had been reading of in the
Scriptures. What a transporting look on her
dear old wrinkled face! She has seen the
“King in His beanty.” She has been wel
comed by the “Lamb who was slain.” And
her two oldest sons, having hurried up
stairs, look and whisper, Henry to George,
“That is religion !” George to Henry, “Yes,
that is religion!”
There is a New York merchant who has
been in business I should say forty or fifty
years. religion During an old-fashioned revival of
in boyhood he gave his heart to
God. He did not make the ghastly and in
finite and everlasting mistake of sowing
“wild oats,” with the expectation of sowing
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
g 00( j afloat later on. He realized the fact
that the most of those who sow “wild oats"
never reap any other crop. He started right
antt j las kept right. He went down in 1837.
W |, en the banks failed, but he tailed Ups honestly
(in( j never lost his faith in God. and
do^-ns—he sometimes iaugbs over them —
but whether losing or gaining he was grow
be t tor all the time. Ho has been in many
b US ( n ess veutures, but he never ventured the
experiment of gaining the world and los
j n ^ soa | < His niime was a power
both in the church and in the business
WO rl<i. He has drawn more checks for contri
butions to asylums and churches and schools
than any one. except God, knows. He has
kt ,p t ma ny a business man from falling bv
lending his name on the back of a note tili
the crisis was past. All heaven knows about
him, for the poor woman whose rent he paid
j n j, er last da3’s, and the man with consurnp
tion in the hospital to whom he sent flowers
Iini j t ho cordials just before ascent ion, and
the people he encouraged in many ways, af
ter they entered heaven kept talking about
j r< f or t he immortals are neither deaf nor
dumb. Well, it is about time for the old
merchant himself to quit earthly residence,
as it is toward evening, he shuts the sate,
puts tho roll of newspapers in his pocket. read
thinking that the family may like to
them after he gets home. He folds up a $3
bill and gives it to the boy to curry to one
of the car men who got his leg broken and
may be in need of a little money; puts a
stamp on a letter to his grandson at college,
a letter with good advice, and an inolosure
to make the holidays happy, then looks
around the store or office and sa3*s to the
clerks, “Good evening,” and starts for
home, stopping on the way at a door to ask
how his ol.l friend, a deacon in the same
church, is getting on since his last bad at
tack of vertigo. He enters his own home,
and that is his last evening on earth. He
does not say much. No last words are
necessary, His whole life has been
a testtmons* for God and righteous
ness. More peoplo would like to attend
his obsequies than any house or church
would hold - The opiating clergyman be
^ ins his f em ar ^ b fnl l ceaseth"
ist ( T fttl' ^!L ihe 6 ^o^o-The gndlv man
- ehMdren
for the fauhfu^l fail^ f from among t
of Every hour In heav t .
,H\ eD- n a
million years of eternity that old merchant
-111 see the result oI hte earthly bejefleeuce did
and fidelity, while on the street where he
business, and in the orphan asylum in which
h ” was a directo^ and in the church of
which he was an officer, whenever his gen
^ and beneficence and goodness are re
ferr t bank director will say to bank di
* and merchant to merchant, and
neighbor . to , neighbor, . .. and , Christian to
Christian^: That Is religion. Yes, that is
red ? iola *,
There is seated „ . , or stan ng very
a man
near 3-ou. Do not look at him, for it might
be unnecessary embarrassment. Only a
few minutes ago he came down off the steps
of as happy a home as there is in this or an>
other clt y- Fifteen years ago, by reason of
b s dissipated habits, his home wasa horror to
wife HI (d children. What that woman went
through within ... order , to preserve _ _ ___. r ^specta
bility and hide her husband s dis a ra^e is a
tragodj - which it would require a Bnakes
peare or Victor Hugo to write out in five
tremendous acts Shall I tell It r He struck
her. Yes ; the one who at the altar he had
biken with vows so solemn they made the
orange blossoms tremble He struck her .
He made tbe beautiful hohda3s a reign of
terror.” Instead of his supporting her, she
supported him. The children had o
heard him speak the name of God. but never
in pra>-er only in proant3. l
saddest thmg on earth t iat ca _
a destroyed home! Walking. along the
street one day an impersonation of all
wretchedness, he saw a sign at the door of
a M®? s Christian As c.
'Meeting Fcr Men On y.
He went in hardly knowing why he did
60 > and sat dow n b>
man was in broken , voice and poor grammar
temp* ho. the Lord had = d hta froaa .
dissipated lire, and the m 1 ^
door said to himself. Why cannot I have
the Lord do the same thing for me? and ne
put his hands, all a-tremble, over his btoateu
face and said : “0 God, I want that. I must
have that!” and God said, You shall have
k» and Y° u bave it now. And the man
came out and went home a changed
and though the children at first shrank back
and looked to the mother and began cry
with fright they soon saw that the father
was a cnanged man. That home has turh ed
from “Paradise Lost to i aradlse Re
gained.” The wife sings all day long at her
work, for she is so happy, and the children
rush out into the ball at the first rattleof the
father’s key in the door latch to welcome
him with caresses and questions pf, W hat
have 3 - ou brought me. Ihe3- haie family
prayers. They are altogether on the
road to heaven, and when the journey of
hfe is over the>’ will live forever in each
other's companionship. Two of their dar
ling children are there alreadj-, waiting tor
lather and mother to come. up. What
changed that man? What reconstructe 1 that
home? What took that wife, who was a
slave of fear and drudgery, and made her a
queen on a throne of affection? I hear a
whispering all through this assemblage. I
know what you are sayipg : “That’s relig
ion ! Yes, that’s religion!” $!>’ Lord and
my ,God, give us more of it f"
Wh}-, my hearers from all parts of the
earth, do you not get this bright and beauti
ful and radiant and blissful and triumphant
thing for y’ourselves, then go home telling all
your neighbors on the Pacific, or in Nova
Scotia, or in Louisiana, or Maine, or Brazil,
or England, or Italy, or any part of - the
round world, that they may have it too.
Have it for the asking! Have it now ! Mind
you, I do not start from the pessimistio
standpoint that David did, when he got mad
and said in his haste, “All men are liars!”
or from tho creed of others that every man
Is as bad as he can be. I rather think from
your looks that you are doing about as well
as you cun in the circumstances whioh you
are placed, but I want to invite you up into
heights of safety and satisfaction and holi
ness, as muob higher than those which the
world affords as Everest, the highest moun
tain in all the earth, is higher than your
front doorstep. it? I might
Here He comes now. Who is
be alarmed and afraid if I had not seen Him
before and heard His voioe. I thought He
would come before I got through; with this
sermon. Stand back and make way for Him.
He comes witt^scarsalt around His forehead ;
scars in the center of both hands stretched
out to greet you ; scars on the Instep of both
the feet with which He advances ; scars on
the breast under which throbs the great
heart of sympathy whioh feels for you. I an
nounce Him. I introduce Him to you, Jesus
of Bethlehem and Olivet and Golgotha. Why
oomest Thou hither^thls winter day, Thou of
the springtime and summery heavens ! He
answers: To give all this audience pardon
for guilt, condolence for grief, whole regl
ments life of help dead! for day of battle and shall eternal I
for the What response
give Him? In your behalf and in my own
behalf I hall Him with the ascription : “Un
to Him who hath loved us, and washed us
from our sins in His own blood, and hath
made us kings and priests unto God and His
Father; to Him be glory and dominion for
ever and ever. Amen.”
Pcritt of intention, though one may
... goes , long way toward . , making . .
a
an action laudable and praiseworthy.
state news items
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
A half million dollars has been ap
propriated for the erection of Savan
nah’s custom house and hundreds of
carloads of Elberton’s granite will be
utilized in it. This contract is worth
between §12,000 and §15,000.
* *
At an enthusiastic meeting of the
business men of Athens it was de
termined to send a committee to Low
ell, Mass., at once, in the interest of
Athens securing the mills that are
moving south. It was also determined
to aid tho establishment of a furniture
factory and a shoe factory in the city,
si *
There was a meeting of the state ex
position commission at Atlanta a few
days ago at which the principal topic
of discussion was the building to hold
the state exhibit and the exhibit itself.
It was shown that §3,000, including
the sum of §1,000 given by the Expo
sition company, had been raised to
ward erecting a building.
* * *
The mining outlook for the year 1895
in Lumpkin county is unusually bright.
New works are being opened up while
operations at old ones are being re
sumed, and iu the course of a few more
months many new mills will be com
pleted and hundreds of stamps will be
crushing the abundance of valuable
ore that lies in the old red hills and
hollows of Lumpkin county.
*
The city weigher reports the cotton
receipts in the Oartersville market at
about 8,000 bales up to this time, and
they will reach nearly 9,000 by the end
of the season. These are the largest
receipts ever known in the history of
the town, and, as cotton from the
county goes to Rome, Acworthand tho
smaller places in the county, this is a
capital showing. v The citizens are
awaking . to the , importance , of . Carters- .
ville as a cotton center, and are going
to make an organized effort to secure
a cotton ,, 4 factory. ? 4 .
*
A recent special f from Washington
announced . the critical . . illness ... . tnat
in
city of General James N. Bethume, of
Georgia. He is nearly ninety-two
-
old ,, and j, has it- had
years in many re
epects, a remarkable career, A native
of Georgia, he was the first editor in
the south .0 openly advocate secession.
He was also almost the pioneer free
trader in this country, having as early
as 1830, ’ advocated “free trade and di
rect . taxation. . , At . time . , he
one was
attorney general of the state of Geor
gia. He moved into Virginia shortly
after the war and incidentally became
widely known as the original owner
of “Blind Tom,” the negro musical
prodigy.
*
One of the largest of the eastern
cotton mills will establish a §600,000
plant at Rome. This is practically a
certainty, though the details have not
been arranged. The agent of the mill,
who has been in the city investigating
for several weeks, will not allow it to
be announced by his authority. He
has secured several hundred acres of
land near the city, and the object is to
build a complete town, the mill to have
its own churches and schools. The
agent has visited eleven counties in
Georgia. He finally decided to recom
mend one of three counties, of which
Floyd was one. Then, after further
investigation, Rome was recommended
on account of its nearness to the coal
fields, its climate and the great amount
of cotton marketed.
*
United States Surveyor of Customs
J. D. Stocker, at Atlanta, bafrprepared
a statement of the expenses and collec
tions for the Atlanta custom house of
fice for the last six years. The state
ment shows that the collections from
1889 to and including 1894 were $56,
989.85, and that the expenses of the
office for those years were §10,731.59.
The statement was prepared for the
purpose of correcting a statement that
the expenses of the Atlanta custom
house had always been greater than
the receipts, and he has given out the
above figures in contradiction of that
statement. He says that the Atlanta
customs office is one of the Compara
tively few inland cities where the col
lections exceed the expenses, and that
any impression that the office was an
expense to the government is errone
ous.
* *
Will Probably be Sold.
Within a few days there will be a
meeting of the trustees of the Confed
erate Home of Georgia. The fate of
the home will be decided at this meet
ing. It will doubtless be ordered sold.
There have been a number of sugges
tions made as to the successful con
ducting of the home, but none of them
were carried out. The money was do
nated and tho home built. It was
placed on a plot of land, containing
120 acres. The home itself was erect
ed at a cost of §50,000. A tender was
ss
year be contributed by it for the sup.
port of the home. The offer was re
jected. The members of two succes
sive legislatures failed to see the mat
ter in the light that had been intended.
Untenauted, the handsome structure
was left. It is still uninhabited, save
by a lone watchman, and instead of
footsteps ringing along the hallways,
echoes reverberate through the great
emptiness. Tho plan miscarried and
there is nothing left but the disposi
tion of the home. That it will be sold
seems certain. There is nothing else to
be done,
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Georgia’s Volunteer Troops.
The report of the adjutant general
has been finished, and is a complete
list of volunteer troops af the state,
Georgia volunteer troops (white):
Number of regiments, 7; number of
separate battalions, 2; adjutant gen
eral’s department, 1; inspector gen
eral’s department, 1; judge advocate
general’s department, 1; quartermas
ter’s department, 3; subsistence de
partment, 1; medical department, 14;
military secretary and aides-de-camp,
30; colonels, 7; lieutenant colonels,
7; majors, 13; adjutants, 11; quarter
masters, 8; commissaries, 9; inspeo
tors of rifle practice, 6; chaplains, 5;
paymasters, 5; assistant surgeons, 0;
captains, 05; first lieutenants, 60;
second lieutenants, 77; total commis
sioned officers, 324; total non-commis
sioned officers, 599; musicians, 27;
privates, 2,106; total enlisted, 2,732;
aggregate, 3,056.
Georgia volunteer troops (colored:)
Number of battalions, 3; number of
companies, 22; lieutenant colonels, 3;
majors, 1; adjutants, 2; commissaries,
2; paymasters, 1; assistant surgeons,
3; captains, 18; first lieutenants, 16;
second lieutenants, 26; total commis
sioned officers, 77; total non-commis
sioned officers, 178; musicians, 11;
privates, 872; total enlisted, 1,061;
aggregate, 1,138.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Condition as Reported
for the Past Week.
Reports on tfie industrial corifiiiion of the south
increase ,he P in aHt general week H *T busiuess V that th ? transactions, re are ° col- r a . n
lections are well kept op and money is easier
than it has been. Home grown supplies have
prevented the drain of money which in former
years has been sent to the north and west. The
j rou market quotations do not change, but th«
demand is large and there are more inquiries
^ to contracts for future deliveries and stocks
do not accumulate on the yards. Ste 1 making
j n the south is attra ting more attention, and
it is reported tHat the Birmingham rolling
mii’s will establish a steel mill at Birmingham
and the DeBardeleben bfc-el company one at
R-ssem r, Ala. The coal demand is somewhat
less active, owing to warmer weather, but is
still veiy large. Jutqj’mation is received that
than for some months past, and that the export
lumver movement is growing acive again. the
Much attention coutij.ues to be given to
establishment of new cotton mills. A mill
with $ 150,(J00 capital was chartered during the
week at Columbia. 8. C.; one to cost $100,003
near Weldon, N. C.; $7.i,00J one at Walhalla,
8. C., and others are reported at Montgomery.
Ala., and Willard, Ga. Enlargements of cot
ton mills are reported at Montgomery, Pied
mont and Tu-caloosa, Ala.
Among tne forty-four new industries organ
iz d or incorporated during the week are: An
electrical company with $100,000 capital at
Gar ter-ville, Ga.; acid works to cost $60,000 at
Cedartown, Ga.; a $50,003 cotton compress at
Paris Tex,, and one at Baton Rouge, La-; a
$50,000 shoe factory at Athens. Ga., and a
$21,000 tobacco factory at Rock Hill, 8. C.
There is also reported brick works at
High Sp ings, Fla.; canning factories at Berry
and Townley, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla., Carters
ville, Ga . and 8tu u t, Va.; electrical plants at
Orlando, Fla., and Dallas, Tex., and flour »nd
grist mills at Birmingham, Ala., Jonesdale,
Ark., Charlotte, N. C., Columbia, 8. C., Fort
Worth, Tex., and Indian Mills, W. Va. A tan
nery is to be built at Orlando, Fla., tobacco
factories at Darlington. S. C., and Elizabeth
town. Tenn,; a sugar refinery at Whiteeastle,
La., and woodworking plants at Brewton, Ala.,
Canton, Ga., Dublin, Miss., and Lewisburg,
Tenn.
Water works are to be erected at Springdale,
Ark., Waynesville, N. for C., and Cleveland, Tenn.
The enlargements the week include an ice
factory at 'Jampa, Fla.; machine shops and
foundries at Birmingham, Ala., and Alexan
dria, Va.; paint works at Cline, Tex., and
woodworking plants at Birmingham, Ala., and
Memphis, Tenn.—Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
A MILLIONAIRE MURDERER.
Duestrow on Trial for Killing His
Wife and Baby Son.
Dr. Arthur Duestrow, millionaire
and murderer, is on trial for his life
at Union, Mo. He is accused of kill
ing his wife and four-year-old son. and
The fact of the killing is admitted
the plea of the defense is insanity. and
Duestrow is about 28 years old,
is the son of one of the oldest citizens
of the state. The elder Duestrow made
his money by speculating in mining
stocks, and when he died, five or six
years ago, left to each of his children,
a son and daughter, §500,000. Mrs.
Duestrow, the widow, was the legatee
of a million. She died a few months
ago, since Arthur’s crime, and this
event doubled the fortune^’of her two
children.
THE STEAMER WRECKED
And the Fate of Twenty-Six Men Is
Yet Unknown.
All hopes for the safety of the Gra
ham – Morton screw steamer Chicosa,
has been abandoned by the finding of
wreckage from the vessel off South Ha
van, Mich. The fate of twenty-six
men, who are known to have been
aboard when the steamer left Milwau
kee for Benton Harbor, Mich., is a ’'
most as hopeless. Veteran mariners
number every man with the dead.